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CONFEDERATE   STATES   OF   AMERICA, 
Subsistence  Department, 

Regulations  of  the  Subsisteticc  Department,  embracing  all  amendments 
and  substitutions  heretofore  made,  but  not  printed  in  the  said  Regula- 
tions, to  take  effect  from  the  first  of  January,  1864. 

The  Ration. 

The  ration  is  one-half  of  a  pound  of  bacon  or  pork  to  troops  in 
movement  or  at  work,  and  one-'hird  of  a  pound  to  stationary  troops,  or 
one  pound  of  fresh  or  salt  beef;  one  and  a  half  pounds  of  flonr  or  corn 
meal,  or  twelve  ounces  of  hard  bread ;  and  at  the  rate  to  one  hundred 
rations,  of  eight  quarts  of  peas  or  beans,  or  in  lieu  thereof,  ten  pounds  of 
rice;  four  quarts  of  vinegar;  one  and  a  half  pounds  of  tallow  candles; 
four  pounds  of  soap ;  two  quarts  of  salt,  or  three  quarts  when  fresh  meat 
is  issued  oftener  than  thrice  a  week,  and  the  supply  is  adequate.  Six 
pounds  of  sugar  to  one  hundred  rations  is  allowed  to  sick  and  wounded 
in  hospitals.  On  a  campaign,  or  on  marches,  or  on  board  of  transports, 
the  ration  of  hard  bread  is  one  pound.  When  there  is  no  meat  ration; a 
pound  of  sound  potatoes,  if  possessed,  should  be  added  to  the  bread  ra- 
tion .  If  neither  meat  nor  potatoes,  then  three-fourths  of  a  pound  of  flour 
or  meal  will  be  added  to  the  present  ration  of  flour  or  meal.  When  both 
meat  and  flour  or  meal  can  be  furnished,  and  potatoes  are  likewise  pos- 
sessed, one  pound  of  potatoes  will  be  substituted  for  one-fourth  of  a 
pound  of  flour  or  meal.  The  issue  of  whiskey  is  prohibited,  except  in 
cases  of  extraordinary  fatigue  and  exposure.  Lard  will  be  issued,  when 
possessed,  in  lieu  of  meat,  at  the  rate  of  one  and  a  half  ounces  to  one 
ration. 

Commanding  officers  have  no  authority  to  alter  or  fix  the  ration  estab- 
lished by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Issues 

Substitute  for  paragraphs  1111  and  1112,  Subsistence  Regulations,  the 
following : 

1111.  Issues  to  the  hospital  will  be  on  returns  by  the  medical  officers, 
for  such  provisions  only  as  are  actually  required  for  the  sick  and  wounded. 
The  commuted  value  of  rations  for  the  sick  and  wounded  will  bo  one 
dollar  ana  twenty-five  cents.  The  ration  for  hospitals  will  be  the  same  aa 
that  issued  to  soldiers  in  the  field.     If  a  greater  allowance  is  required  of 


any  particular  articles,  not  issued  to  the  troops  in  the  field,  special  requi- 
sitions must  be  made  therefor.  Hospital  attendants  cannot  draw  rations 
from  the  Subsistence  Department,  but  will  have  their  rations  commuted 
at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem. 

1112.  Commissaries  will  transfer,  for  the  purchase  of  necessary  sup- 
plies for  the  sick  and  wQimded,  to  the  medical  officer  in  charge  of  a  hos- 
pital (taking  duplicate  receipts  therefor),  such  portion  of  the  hospital 
fund  as  may  be  demanded  on  requisition.  One  of  these  duplicate  re- 
ceipts will  be  transferred  to  the  Subsistence  Bureau,  with  the  hospital 
abstract  for  the  month. 

When  a  hospital  fund  shall  exceed  five  thousand  dollars,  the  commis- 
sary shall  drop  such  excess  from  the  abstract.  He  will  account  for  the 
hospital  fund,  on  the '  Monthly  Hospital  Abstract,  Monthly  Summary 
Statement,  and  Quarterly  Account  Current. 

Hospitals  for  prisoners  of  war  are  placed  on  the  same  footing  as  other 
Confederate  States  hospitals,  in  all  respects,  and  will  be  managed  accord- 
ingly. Rations  are  to  bo  issued  to  discharged  men  delayed  at  way 
hospitals. 

One  ration  per  day  will  be  allowed  detailed  soldiers  in  ordnance  work- 
shops or  arsenals,  who  receive  three  dollars  or  less  per  day,  to  be  issued 
on  returns  similar  to  those  used  for  hospitals,  and  to  be  paid  for  by  the 
Ordnance  Department.  The  issuing  commissary  is  to  account  for  the 
funds  received  from  such  issues. 

Inasmuch  as  the  Regulations  concerning  the  issue  of  commissary 
stores  have  been  violated",  by  issuing  the  same  to  civilians,  hereafter  all 
issues  of  subsistence  stores,  not  warranted  by  the  Regulations,  are  posi- 
tively prohibited. 

Hospital  laundresses  are  allowed  one  ration  per  diem  each.  Rations 
are  allowed  officers  and  men  in  the  Nit*e  and  Mining  Bureau,  as  in  the 
case  of  ordnance  officers  and  men  in  the  field. 

Commanding  officers  are  required  to  examine  the  returns  of  their  com- 
missaries, whether  the  issues  were  made  by  the  direction  of  their  prede- 
cessors in  command,  or  by  their  own  direction. 

Subsistence  to  Officers. 

The  following  is  a  substitute  for  paragraph  1127  : 

1127.  An  officer  may  draw  subsistence  stores,  paying  cash  for  them, 
at  the  schedule  prices  established  by  the  commissioners  of  the  state  in 
which  the  officer  may  be  on  duty,  without  including  cost  of  transporta- 
tion, on  his  certificate  that  they  are  for  his  own  use  and  the  use  of  his 
family.    He  can  purchase  stores  for  his  family,  only  when  they  are  with 


him  where  he  is  stationed  on  duty,  and  only  such  articles  as  are  a  part  of 
the  ration  issued  to  soldiers.  The  certified  lists  of  sales  the  commanding' 
officer  shall  compare  with  the  Monthly  Abstract  of  Sales,  which  he  shall 
countersign.  (See  Form  5.)  The  commissary  shall  enter  the  sales  on 
his  Monthly  Return  of  Provisions,  and  credit  the  money  in  his  Monthly 
Summary  Statement  and  Quarterly  Account  Current.  Commissaries  who 
draw  stores  in  bulk,  can  alone  make  sales  to  officers. 

Commutation  of  Rations. 

For  paragraphs  J 129,  1130,  1131  and  1132,  substitute  the  following: 

Enlisted  men  who  hav  been  or  may  become  permanently  disabled,  <K 
who  hold  a  certificate  of  a  medical  examining  board  to  that  effect,  and 
who  have  not  been  discharged  the  service,  may  have  their  rations  com- 
muted at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem,  whether  they  are  in  a 
hospital,  private  quarters,  or  on  furlough. 

Enlisted  men  detailed  for  duty  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  on  account  of 
physical  disability,  are  allowed  one  dollar  and  twenty  cents  per  diem,  sis 
commutation  of  rations. 

Commutation  of  rations  of  all  enlisted  men,  entitled  thereto  by  the  Re- 
gulations of  the  War  Department,  whether  on  detached  or  detailed  ser- 
vice, or  stationed  in  a  city  with  no.  opportunity  of  messing,  or  of  the 
non-commissioned  and  regimental  staff  when  they  have  no  opportunity 
of  messing,  or  of  soldier*  on  furlough,  or  stationed  where  rations  cannot 
be  issued  in  kind,  or  placed  temporarily  in  a  private  hospital,  on  the 
advice  of  the  senior  surgeon  of  the  post  or  detachment,  or  of  ordnance 
sergeahts,  or  of  a  soldier  who  has  necessarily  paid  for  his  own  subsistence, 
or  of  a  chaplain,  is  fixed  at  one  dollar  per  diem,  to  date  from  the  1st  Janu- 
ary, 1864. 

All  commutation  accounts  will  state  the  length  of  time,  date  and  amount, 
for  what  purpose  commutation  is  claimed,  and  that  it  was  impracticable 
for  the  soldier  to  take  rations  in  kind,  which  facts  must  be  certified  to  by 
the  commissioned  officer  under  whose  orders  the  soldier  was  at  the  time 
the  rations  became  due. 

Commutation  of  rations  in  the  case  of  paroled  unexch^iged  prisoners 
on  furlough,  who  have  just  been  received  from  the  Federal  lines,  will  be 

-allowed  at  one  dollar  per  diem,  to  date  from  first  January,  1864. 

■ 

Extra  Duty  Men, 

The  following  is  a 'substitute  for  paragraph  1133: 
Pay  allowed  detailed  men  at  posts,  or  stations  without  troops,  or  in 
counties,  towns  or  government  workshops,  is  three  dollars  per  day  in  lieu 


of  all  commutation  or  allowances,  except  the  regular  monthly  pay  of  a 
soldier,  to  be  paid  by  the  departments  in  which  the  men  are  detailed. 
When  serving  in  the  field  as  clerks,  they  are  to  be  paid  one  dollar  and 
twenty-five  cents  per  diem,  and  receive  the  other  allowances  of  a  soldier. 
In  Subsistence  Bureau,  to  be  paid  on  Form  21,  which  must  be  approved 
by  the  commanding  officer.  This  Regulation  to  continue  in  effect  until 
31st  December,  1664. 

A  commissary  sergeant  is  allowed  to  each  regiment  or  battalion,  who 
is  to  be  paid  twenty  dollars  per  month  out  of  quartermaster's  funds  on 
the  pay  roll. 

Sub-agents  and  employees  must  be  chosen  from  men  who  are  not  sub- 
jects of  conscription,  if  they  can  be  found,  giving  preference  to  those  men 
who  have  been  permanently  discharged  the  service,  or  who  are  perma- 
nently disabled  to  perform  field  duty.  They  are  to  be  paid  such  rates  as 
may  be  ageeed  to  by  them  and  the  district  commissaries,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Chief  Commissary  of  the  state  and  the  Commissary 
General.  When  men  are  employed  who  are  subjects,  of  conscription, 
they  will  receive  the  same  rates  of  pay  as  detailed  men  at  posts  or  sta- 
tions, &c,  and* the  expense  of  keeping  a  horse,  where  the  nature  of  the 
service  required  of  them  is  such  that  a  horse  is  needed ;  or  they  can  re- 
ceive in  lieu  of  the  above,  if  they  prefer  it,  their  actual  expenses,  and 
eleven  dollars  per  month. 

Commissary  PnoPEirfY. 

Commissaries  receiving  beeves  or  sheep,  will  be  responsible  for  hides, 
corresponding  with  the  number  of  beeves  or  sheep  slaughtered  by  them. 
The  hides  will  be  transferred  to  the  nearest  quartermaster,  who  will  pay 
five  cents  per  pound  for  the  green,  and  ten  cents  per  pound  for  the  dry 
hides,  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department,  and  for  all  hides  east  of  the 
Mississippi,  thirty  cents  per  pound.  Commissaries  will  also 'see  to  the 
proper  preservation  and  transfer  of  the  tallow  arising  from  the  slaughtered 
beeves,  to  the  nearest  post  commissary,  who  will  either  manufacture 
candles  therefrom,  or  transfer  it  to  some  depot  commissary  in  charge  of 
such  manufactory. 

An  officer  receiving  barrels  or  boxes,  shall  take  all  necessary  care  that 
they  be  preserved  for  purposes  of  repacking,  and  will  invoice  and  receipt* 
for  all  sacks  transferred  to  or  received  from  other  commissaries. 

Requisitions  for  blanks  and  stationery  will  be  made  by  the  district 
commissaries  of  the  states  and  the  corps  commissaries  of  the  army,  on 
this  department,  in  the  manner  indicated  heretofore.  In  case  of  *a  de- 
tached division,  brigade  or  regiment,  the  commissary  thereof  will  make 


his  requisition  directly  on  this  department,  stating  on  the  face  of  the 
requisition  that  he  is  so  detached,  and'has  no  opportunity  of  drawing  his 
stationery  through  the  regular  channel.  In  the  latter  case,  the  com- 
manding officer  will  approve  the  requisitions. 

Returns  of  commissaries  must  be  made  upon  the  printed  forms  or 
blanks.     Writing  paper  must  not  be  used  for  this  purpose. 

Whenever  commissaries  transfer  subsistence  stores,  particularly  on  rail 
roads,  they  will  see  that  the  gross,  tare  and  net  are  distinctly  marked  on 
each  package,  and  that  tho  same  be  expressed  on  the  way  bill  or  bill  of 
lading,  and  that  the  number  of  packages,  and  the  gross,  tare  and  net 
weight  of  each  be  expressed  upon  every  invoice  of  subsistence  store?. 

Sacks  containing  stores  must  be  invoiced  separately,  and  receipted  for 

Invoices  must  bo  sent  to  the  receiving  officer  without  delay. 

Commissaries  will  also,  when  large  shipments  are  made  in  succession, 
cause  each  package  to  be  marked  in  such  a  manner  as  will  enable  the 
receiving  officer  to  distinguish  the  different  shipments,  and  notify  the  re- 
ceiving officer  of  the  particular  mark 

L.  B.  NORTHROP, 

Commissary  General 


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